Today was the last day of Chinese intensive, but I think everyone will be having their Chinese intensive extension at home.

Here are some statistics:

Total number of days of Chinese intensive: 10
Total hours of Chinese intensive: 40
Total number of paper 2s completed: 13
Total number of compositions written: 15

My level of concentration during Chinese intensive was like a quadratic graph with a positive x-square. During the first few days, my brain cells were still at full force and many of them had not died yet. I made sure I did my best during the practices. My level of concentration decreased along the way because I was getting tired, and my brain cells were either being murdered by me, or committing suicide. After doing so many papers, I started to lose the motivation to continue trying so hard because I didn't see how practicing so much would help. Then after realising that I got a C6 for Chinese, I decided to start panicking. Today, I was concentrating at full force because O level Chinese is just 3 days away.

While doing a paper 2 in the morning, everyone started hearing a loud knocking sound coming from the front of the classroom. It became persistent and sounded increasingly agitated. Soon, everyone was staring at lao shi. She was banging her poor correction fluid on the table. People started becoming concerned and asked her what happened. She said the correction fluid was new, then started complaining about how the correction fluid was offending her by not producing any correction fluid. After giving her some time to scold the correction fluid, a few kind people in class offered to help her repair it and lent her another one in the meantime. It was quite hilarious watching the poor correction fluid suffering under the hands of lao shi.

Got back the report book today. I know I didn't do well this term because 2 subjects deproved drastically. I almost wanted to blame it on SYF but then I remembered what I told myself - that I won't blame SYF for my poor results because it's my fault. I'm going to have to buck up on English and Social Studies. Music was a special case (only some people know why). As for Chinese, I'm not so worried because the MYE was before Chinese intensive. I'm quite sure I have improved quite a bit since then, and anyway all I have to care about now is the O level paper on Monday. Other than those, I think everything else should be alright for now and I won't have to change their revision strategy yet. Thank God.

Chinese intensive ended almost at 6pm today. These 2 weeks of intensive felt like SYF intensive rehearsals. To my horror (ok, not that serious), I found Jolene and Nicole at the bus stop. They wouldn't tell me how long they'd been there (they kept insisting on 10mins) so I had to ask Jie Ying for clues. Now I have a massive amount of bus debt to clear. This reminds me of SS Chapter 1 on the Iraq war. Iraq also had a massive war debt to clear, and this was one of the causes of its conflict woth Kuwait.

Jean came back from OBS today. She looked a bit like a giant, walking lobster with some skin disease (because of 50 sandfly bites). She knocked off at 8pm and even managed to sleep through my violin practice next door. That type of sleep is awesome. I've been deprived of that for a long time.

I feel very cheena after all the Chinese I've been through. It's so cheenish I made a very silly grammatical error just now. I asked Jolene and Nicole, "how long have you standed here?" I think they must have gotten the shock of their lives. Shell shocked. But then again, it wasn't my fault, because I had been thinking 华文 for the past 3.5 hours in the afternoon.